I will always have fond memories of my Pilipino I Professor at DLSU. Heber didn't conduct his class in the traditional manner. It was an interaction between teacher and students. What was more important for him was we develop a consciousness about the ills of society and how we
can go about mitigating the same once we step out in the real world. He was the only leftist-militant I ever liked. His final exam in the course was a paper on anything related to social consciousness. I wrote about the plight of a Waray bar girl in Ermita, which was then the red
light district of Manila. It was only then that I gained an insight into what life was like on Samar. Years later I would see for myself going to Catarman, Borongan and Guiuan. Paalam ginoong Heber. Ikinagagalak ko na maging mag-aaral mo. Malaki ang nagampanan mo sa pag-ibig ng
pagkatao at pakikitungo ko sa kapwa-tao ko. Maraming salamat sa iyong mga aral. Paalam.
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In his column today, former Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio is at it. Again. opinion.inquirer.net/?p=146557
The issue he discusses is perjury without direct reference to Bongbong Marcos for reasons of libel and slander. Of course, Carpio knows better than to have a libel case filed against him unlike Maria Ressa, who doesn't know any better.
The political drama over the Duterte family feud finally died down last Monday after the substitution deadline came to pass.
The events from October 8 to November 15 have led to questions over the election code loopholes which have been exploited by the administration since Duterte ran for the Presidency in 2015.
Here he goes again...The political analyst with the ghost writer whose columns are, more often enough, filled with more quotes from the books he has read than actual thought-provoking out-of-the box ideas which would make him more credible with the public, as a public…
Ang tama, ipaglaban. Ang mali, labanan. These are the words which have guided Panfilo Morena Lacson’s career in government, which has spanned 50 years since his graduation from the Philippine Military Academy in 1971.
Bakit siya tumatakbo sa pagka-Pangulo? Lacson ran for President in 2004 as an independent and managed to garner ten percent of the total votes cast.
So, the agony has ended before the 5.00 p.m. deadline for the filing of substitution of candidacies. It's not exactly all's well that ends well but the electoral cast is more or less complete...until the next time the President feels the urge to turn the table over again.
The jury is still out on the "strategic initiatives" of the President, as it has been bruited about by his supporters on social media. PDP-Laban doesn't have a Presidential and a Vice-Presidential candidate but it has a Senatorial slate.
The much anticipated prequel movie based on hit HBO series The Sopranos disappoints big-time. There is not much meat in the story which focuses on Dickie Moltisanti, father of Christopher and the mentor and favorite uncle of the young Anthony Soprano.
The story revolves on Dickie Moltisanti's rise in his father's family, together with the Soprano brothers, Johnny and Junior, but that's about it.